Trump: Fixing Districts GOP Gerrymandered Is ‘Very Unfair to Republicans’

Calls for Republicans to Appeal to SCOTUS (They Already Did and Lost)

President Donald Trump is blasting “Democrat judges” on Pennsylvania’s supreme court for ordering state lawmakers to redraw congressional districts Republicans unconstitutionally gerrymandered. He’s also demanding the GOP take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Someone at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue has not been paying attention.

Early this month Pennsylvania Republicans did ask the U.S. Supreme Court to block their state’s Supreme Court ruling ordering a redrawing of the congressional districts, knowing if they do so fairly Republicans will lose several seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito denied their request, and even so, this past Thursday Republicans filed another request for SCOTUS to block the ruling. 

That is, except for at least some Republican lawmakers, who are working to impeach any justice who ruled the congressional map was gerrymandered and therefore unconstitutional.

How gerrymandered is the map? Pennsylvania is about 50-50 Democrats and Republicans. In 2016 Pennsylvania Republicans in the House won about 54% of the vote but more than 72% of the House seats.

 

Image via Wikimedia: “Original cartoon of ‘The Gerry-Mander’, this is the political cartoon that led to the coining of the term Gerrymander. The district depicted in the cartoon was created by Massachusetts legislature to favor the incumbent Democratic-Republican party candidates of Governor Elbridge Gerry over the Federalists in 1812.”